Archive - Blood in the Machine

How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix movies are fighting AI

With solidarity, legislation, class action lawsuits, and a little help from Guillermo del Toro. Plus, the Luddite Renaissance continues, and I open the…

Oct 29 •

How to win followers and influence people (to subscribe to your newsletter)

On leaving legacy media and posting through it in 2025

Oct 23 •

Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete

The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media…

Oct 16 •

AI profiteering is now indistinguishable from trolling

And what that says about the state of the AI bubble

Oct 10 •

The incredible arrogance of OpenAI

With Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win

Oct 5 •

"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix

The author of 'Why We Fear AI' on why he sees generative AI as "class warfare through enshittification."

Oct 1 •

September 2025

We're about to find out if Silicon Valley owns Gavin Newsom

A guide to the AI and tech bills that have passed the California legislature, and await the governor's signature — or veto.

Sep 26 •

The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing

This fall, the new luddites are rising

Sep 21 •

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it…

Sep 16 •

The killing of Charlie Kirk and the end of the "global town square"

On the state of X, AI "enhancements", and the balkanization of Twitter into anti-social media.

Sep 12 •

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

Sep 7 •

One of the last, best hopes for saving the open web and a free press is dead

The Google ruling is a disaster. Let the AI slop flow and the writers, journalists and creators get squeezed.

Sep 4 •

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